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Gmote
Created by Marc Stogaitis
Gmote

Licence
Free
Android version
1.5 and up
Team note
9 / 10
Users note
9 / 10
Downloads
about 1000000
Size
1 Mo
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Team review

" Your phone become a remote control. "

The application has not yet detailed description, however the team assigned the note of 9 / 10. This note is based on the following criteria: Quality, Usefulness, Ease of Use, Privacy Concerns of user data (depending on the permissions required)..

The app is compatible from version 1.5 of Android. Any supperior OS version will support it.

Its weight is very light, less than a megabyte is sufficient to store and operate.

Its number of downloads in the Android Market (Google Play) makes it an extremely popular application and rightly so. More than a million users are using it on mobile or on touch pad.


User reviews

40 users have given their review on Gmote.


Positive review Great app...but.. by anonym
Most features work, but some important ones not. For example, the volume control buttons don't work. Volume up turns the volume down, volume down mutes the volume, and the mute button does nothing. 4/5
Positive review Makes life a lot lazier. :) by anonym
Great app. Scroll feature and zoom feature on images would be a good addition to this. 5/5
Positive review Simply amazing! by anonym
I was looking for an app like this for some time now! This is simply amazing! Plus it surprised me it was free! I would definitely recommend people to donate. Feature request: I don@t really like the U.I. and I think this can be greatly improved. However thank you for making this fantastic app :) 5/5
Positive review It works flawlessly by anonym
This is my preferred way to stream music on my phone. I really dislike "cloud" services, as they are unreliable and try to lock you into their particular ecosystem. With Gmote, I can stream directly from my PC anywhere I have mobile service or Wi-Fi. 5/5
Positive review Perfect by anonym
I use my laptop with a video projector and this is a perfect app to run it from a distance! Not easy to set up with a firewall 5/5
Positive review Excellent Lazy Support by anonym
I love how I can be uber lazy with this app. I can do lazy things with a single finger... not typing this of course. I have a large monitor so it's good that the app helps me to use my laptop from far so I don't have to ruin my eyes. It would be great if the keyboard and mouse buttons are placed at the bottom. I drag my windows around a lot so it helps to have faster access to those buttons. Also if I can use this app via bluetooth. I'd pay for it. Pretty sure not everyone have nationwide wifi access. Great job nonetheless!!! 5/5
Positive review My most useful app - WIFI video/audio streaming by anonym
The "phone" mode works great on my Google Asus Nexus 7 tablet. It plays all videos using the best video player app (by far) DicePlayer. Very simple to use both as server (PC) side and client phone-tablet side. I have a 2TB USB 3.0 hard drive with tons of video files always connected to my Lenovo notebook. Even though my wi-fi network for both PC and tablet is only 802.11g (not n), videos play flawlessly (MP4 MPG MKV WMV AVI FLV MOV). I previously tried to set up a local nginx HTTP server and Fillazilla FTP server to access my remote files. Not only are these more complicated to set up but I never got them to work on my network with the N7 tablet. The only significant failing of GMOTE is audio files. Unlike video files, where GMOTE passes off the actual video player function to your favorites video app like DicePlayer, BSPlayer, or MXPlayer, GMOTE tries to handle the audio files itself. This works okay for MP3 and FLAC files but totally fails for WMA files. I think it would be better if GMOTE also passed off the audio file playing function to an external audio app such as doubleTwist, etc., more specialized for audio. Minor: directory structure could also use improvement. 5/5
Negative review Touchpad and Keyboard Work in Linux...that's about it by anonym
The keyboard support is smooth, but most of my extended keys don't work (alt+tab, home, end, etc.). The touchpad is pretty puny with only 1 mouse button and vertical-only scroll. The support for VLC is pretty poor and doesn't seem to work at all in Linux. I had to install a dev package to even get the server running, which crashes every time I try to play a file on the computer or change the settings. Streaming to my phone (beta) works fine for audio (even plays in background), but the video has issues with some of the blocks having black lines. The web feature (beta) opens up Firefox, which I only have installed because of web-dev work I do. I can only assume this is one of the settings that can be changed (literally, since the settings menu crashes the server). It works for some things, but I get the mobile versions of pages. YouTube sadly does not work well. Somehow the URL in the phone browser isn't getting updated, except once when it failed to go back to the first page, and tapping on the big play icon to start the video does nothing. 2/5
Positive review Remote Control Windows from your phone by anonym
Does what the title says. You can enable scrolling as well. Mouse movement is tracked very quickly and keyboard presses are recognized fast. If I had to request one thing would want a dedicated Windows start button. 5/5
Positive review Excellent. by anonym
Delivers exactly what it promises. Love the choice to show ads or not - makes me want to support the developers. The UI is a bit stale, but thank god feature creep has been kept at bay. Simple, reliable, useful. The best app of its kind. 5/5
Negative review Worthless by anonym
Missing necessary controls for most programs (is arrow keys) so you HAVE to play via included java app, which is terrible. Vids aren't watchable. No TNA's, over all a waste of time. 1/5
Positive review The best app out there. by anonym
Works great with 0 glitches. Makes me proud to own an android device. 5/5
Positive review Best remote I have used by anonym
I am able to control my mouse and type on my computer using my Nexus 7 really easily with this app. The only thing I wish was that the ability to hear media from your computer on your device would be updated so it would work better and so I could watch videos saved on my computer on my Nexus. Great app with so much potential! 4/5
Negative review Asks to install JAVA on PC by anonym
Which is a total piece of junk no one wants on their computer, even if they don't know it. 1/5
Positive review Good Simple Apps by anonym
doesn't have the advanced Features that Unified Remote has but had Zero problems installing and using this App. Could use a few more features IMO. 4/5
Positive review Desire HD by anonym
Streamlined, easy to use and does everything perfectly. 5 stars and huge props to the devs for such a great job! 5/5
Positive review Good so far by anonym
Good app i dl'd it twice for my new fone. Would like to see the computer screen thou so i can still do things whilst i poo. 5/5
Positive review Works Exactly As It Should by anonym
Really sad to see this old gem lose support and hosting. Glad to know Google still hosts it. If you can find the legacy server client floating around this is really the best replacement for a wireless keyboard/mouse around. The streaming features have all been eclipsed by modern "Cast to" functions but nothing works as easily as that touchpad mouse. Also a fantastic way to troll your roommates and loved ones. 5/5
Positive review Amazing by anonym
This is absolutely perfect. Works just like a tv remote, works perfectly as a touch pad, and integrated access to files on the smartphone and choice to display file on the computer or phone is a genius idea. Thumbs up. 5/5
Positive review Great remote app by anonym
Works surprisingly well, but could use a few additions such as a shuffle button for music. It will shuffle if iTunes is set to shuffle, however. Would be nice to toggle it from the phone. Another thing - the interface is a bit outdated and some of the icons are blurry on my GNexus. Perhaps an update to the holo interface is warranted? Otherwise, this is a great app. Keep up the good work! 4/5
Positive review One of the most useful apps out there. by anonym
Been using this on my HTPC for a while, and pretty much the only thing that could make this app better is to add a Wake-On-LAN (WOL) feature within the app, which I currently have to use through a different app. 5/5
Positive review good but... by anonym
Remote PC server client is a weak point, it should be improved. Pc server is constantly losing connection, it suddenly crashed and dissspered from tray and you have to restarting it manually, which is annoying. Also it need newer version of Vlc in it, sound is often distorted or posibility to use player of our choice... 4/5
Negative review Can't download Gmote Server program by anonym
When entering provided link to download the program I get Error:Not Found 1/5
Positive review by anonym
This is a great app, it is just a shame that there is no longer any updates. Especially now that using it with windows 10 Java constantly crashes mid video play-back. I would try to update this but I do not even know where to begin. update: the problem is with .MKV videos. They either dont play or just crash the program. anyone know of any fixes? 4/5
Positive review Error with server on Windows 8.1 by anonym
I've always used this app on my android devices/desktops. I recently got a Nexus 5 and installed it on that. I have a Windows 8.1 PC on which I installed the server. Unfortunately, there is some issue with the server. It requires Java 1.6 which I installed but it still shows the error message that Java hasn't been found. When I run it in debug mode, it crashes with an error saying that VLC hasn't been found. Tried replacing the VLC folder with my own (as suggested in the FAQ) but it didn't work. Kindly fix. Really want to use it again! :) 5/5
Positive review Simple And Fantastic by anonym
Took and downloaded this app to take and stream video's to my TV as well as music movies from my computer and stream to the TV set and photos, this was so simple to use that my 7 year old daughter can use it to watch her videos on the big screen. Really great for taking and showing off your photos to friends and family on the big screen when they come over verses from the PC or my phone. If your looking for a SIMPLE and easy to use program for streaming, then this is a MUST DOWNLOAD for you then so take and check it out for yourself you won't be sorry !!!!!! 5/5
Positive review Transformer Prime by anonym
Works well except flips orientations (landscape/portrait) as you move from browse to playing modes -- please fix and you get 5 stars 4/5
Positive review Awesome app by anonym
Its easy to use and user-friendly .I will recommend everyone to use this app...moreover thanx to the developer for this innovative app.keep it up 5/5
Positive review Terribly good app by anonym
I never thought that I would use my phone as a remote for my PC. It's a very easy to use app, oh and by the way it's one of those lazy-man apps, which I love. 5/5
Positive review So good by anonym
I expected this to be a pain in the @ss to set up but it's so easy. Amazing app. Well done, great work and thanks for the app. Made my day 5/5
Positive review Great Old App! by anonym
I used to use this app with my old smart phone and now it's better and stable and very easy to set up on my new phone. I am glad to find it and install it back on my new phone again! Now I am using it with 2 different smart phones hooked up to my DJ mixer for a great crossfade experience. 5/5
Positive review WORKS!! by anonym
I usually never take the time to write reviews for things regardless of how good they are, but after spending almost 3 days trying to find a program to let me stream mkv. Files onto my galaxy s3 I almost gave up. Then I tried gmote. Easy to install. Simple interface. And pesky ads. Finally one that works and works well. 5/5
Neutral review Not compatible with my phone. by anonym
Its a great app, if only it was bug free on my Motorola Triumph. It made my wifi malfunction and my phone kept rebooting. Once I uninstalled it, no more problems. 3/5
Positive review Great app by anonym
No more sitting up to use the mouse. Just one problem struggles with my 3D movies stutters and freezes frame any ideas or updates to render this???? 4/5
Negative review lol by anonym
totally pointless. it uses its own player, so u cant control the next, pause etc buttons on your own player 1/5
Positive review It works on linux! by anonym
It works great as a touchpad and keyboard on Debian, but it won't work for controlling vlc. Installing vlc-dev gets rid of the error when starting the server, but it still can't launch the vlc player. It's still an awesome app just for being able to use it as a touchpad and keyboard! 4/5
Positive review Love it!! by anonym
Easy to set up, and once done there is worry about media players besides having your favourite installed on your PC. 5/5
Positive review Good app by anonym
Does everything I expected and a little I didn't. I do have a problem using the browser in the app, it seems to want to act like I'm tapping the screen in one spot repeatedly. If that would get fixed, easily a 5 star app to me and this is from someone who doesn't usually bother to comment on apps. 4/5
Neutral review Used to love it... by anonym
Guys your app it's just the best around, but lately I'm not able anymore to make it work with Ubuntu Linux. It would be great to have a look on it. I'm afraid no one works anymorw on it but i will get the donate version if there will be updates. 3/5
Positive review Error: Not Found by anonym
The requested URL was not found on this server.. So.. I know its been a while, but tried to install this app on my new Nexus to no avail.. Why not remove the entry from the play store if you are no longer maintaining it? 4/5

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